Join the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition on Wednesday June 15 at their 2011 Golden Wheel Awards to celebrate SF’s increasing number of people who have ditched the car and are using pedal-power instead and the unique planning efforts behind making the city even more biker-friendly. The event takes place in the War Memorial Building at 401 Van Ness Avenue–a very cool building.

This year’s event celebrates efforts that are making San Francisco a world-class bicycling city. Honors are going to the Market Street Green Separated Bikeway and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Livable Streets Team for proving the saying “build it and they will ride their bikes there” (or something like that). There will also be a shout out to the Powell Street Promenade and the Union Square Business Improvement District and its City partners for the beautiful expansion of the sidewalk there, therefore making it more bike-friendly.

Thanks to Katie Wylie at bike-friendly Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) for bringing this to the attention of the WBBC. Not only is SOM one of the event sponsors but it also created a bike share program for its employees in San Francisco and has increasingly included bicycle transportation in its planning efforts!